Luigi Sportelli

Position:
Full professor (retired), former chair of the Molecular Biophysics Laboratory

Contacts:
Telephone (office): +39 0984 49 6076
Telephone (lab): +39 0984 49 6069 / 6073
Email: luigi.sportelli [at] fis.unical.it

Memberships:

Member of the CNISM (National Interuniversity Consortium for the Physical Science of Matter), thematic area 2 (Liquids, biological and molecular materials).

Member of the doctoral programme STFCM (Scienze e Tecnologie Fisiche, Chimiche e dei Materiali). Scientific curriculum: "Atomic and molecular scale of matter: chemistry and physics of matter and materials" [personal page at STFCM].

Member of SIBPA (Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata), SIF (Società Italiana di Fisica) and ANFeA (Associazione Nazionale Fisica e Applicazioni).

Interests:

Application of electron spin resonance and other spectroscopies (optical absorption and fluorescence) to the investigation of biological systems. Structure and dynamics of natural membrane and related model systems and their interaction with biomolecules.

Short academic curriculum:

2000-November 2017: Full professor of Applied Physics and Biophysics

1979-November 2017: Scientific coordinator of the Molecular Biophysics Laboratory.

2005-2007: Local scientific coordinator of a PRIN research projects (ex MPI 40%).

2000-2003: Coordinator of a local CIPE project.

1986-1999: Professor of Applied Physics

1982-1997: Scientific coordinator of research programs supported from CNR (Italian National Council of Research).

1981-1985: National scientific coordinator of two PRIN research projects (ex MPI 40%).

1978: PhD graduation at the Faculty of Science of the University of Giessen (Germany).

1978: Fellow at the Physics Laboratories of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome.

1977: DAAD fellow at the Strahlenzentrum, Giessen (Germany).

1974-1976: EURATOM fellow at the "Strahlenzentrum" Institut of Biophysics of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen (Germany).

1972: Graduation in Physics at the University of Pisa.